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The contemporary sea walls built in the pedestrian seashore zone in the City of Acre, Israel, were sided with porous calcarenite sandstone, so-called ‘kurkar’. Kurkar stone has been broadly used as a durable building material in Acre and Jaffa, the Eastern Mediterranean offshore cities, since ancient times. Therefore, the contemporary urban architectural plans obligate kurkar siding in the modern structures erected beside the Old City of Acre. However, a rapid deterioration of kurkar siding had occurred in the contemporary sea walls during only a few years. In contrast, the Historic walls built of kurkar dimensional stone have been still sound. The current study has evaluated the factors and causes of kurkar deterioration in the modern seawalls. It was revealed that the main reason for deterioration was adhering the kurkar siding with cement mortar and the next exposure of adhered siding to the humid and salt-enriched offshore environment with high air pollution.

The last mile is characterized as the last step of delivery to the customer from the logistics point of view. It is necessary to aim and fulfill all customers&rsquo, needs mainly during the process of the last mile, because it is directly connected to them. Customer orientation can cause many complications that must be solved according to their will. This part of the supply chain is currently under pressure. Nowadays, trends have changed the last mile into a more ecological process mostly in the transport field. Railway transport is considered as an ecological transport mode therefore the last mile should be done by the railway transport. Preconditions for doing the last mile by the railway transport is the existence of siding (special purpose tracks) at the place of delivery. Our research focuses on minimizing the negative impacts of the last mile to customers in the context of using sidings. This research is based on the real conditions of the Slovak rail network, and on consultation with some experts from freight transport companies.

Esta pesquisa tem por objetivo apresentar um processo de trabalho com foco na experiência artística com tapumes. Assim demonstro e problematizo, por meio da funcionalidade e da banalidade deste elemento arquitetônico, que envolve a cidade em transformação, os corpos e outros artefatos culturais em que intervenho, aquilo que é importante para mim, mas, principalmente, aquilo que é indiferente para todos. Aqui se encontra também a apresentação da documentação visual e das operações poéticas que estruturam um pensamento e seu objeto de investigação – o tapume – sob a perspectiva de uma mudança material e simbólica. Documento, analiso e discuto, com as referências teóricas, o uso dos tapumes, abordando questões referentes à dinâmica cultural do espaço urbano, do ponto de vista da intervenção, de apropriações e coleções, da identidade, da memória e da semiótica, que antecederam e fizeram parte do corpus de experimentação visual desta dissertação This research aims to present a work process focused on the artistic experience with sidings. This is how I demonstrate and problematize, through the functionality and banality of this architectural element, which involves the city in transformation, the bodies and other cultural artifacts in which I intervene, what is important to me, but mainly, what is indifferent to everyone. Here is also the presentation of visual documentation and poetic operations that structure a thought and its object of investigation - the siding - under the perspective of a material and symbolic change. Document, analyze and discuss, with theoretical references, the use of sidings, addressing issues related to the cultural dynamics of urban space, from the point of view of intervention, appropriations and collections, identity, memory and semiotics, which preceded and were part of the body of visual experimentation in this dissertation.

This paper represents the first public exhibition of Thermadapt™ building coverings which were invented more than eight years ago. The paper starts with a brief overview of the field of adaptive materials and their applications in various industries. Thermally adaptive building covering sheet fundamentals are explained by laying out the basic structural mechanics of thermally induced gross shape changes in lamina. As a truncated paper, the driving theory, coupon, test chamber and subscale building data could not be included due to length constraints, but will be delivered during oral presentation. Nonetheless, data from outdoor range testing on three independent buildings is presented. These three buildings measuring 1.8m (6 ft) deep x 2.4m (8 ft) wide x 2.1m (7 ft) high showed excellent results. The first was outfitted with Thermadapt™ siding and roofing. The second was outfitted with a variety of different amounts of insulation. The third was used as a control. The configuration of the full-scale test range buildings is shown along with performance data in all midwestern seasons. The data demonstrated that thin thermally adaptive building coverings are as effective as 27 cm (10.5”) of fiberglass insulation, indicating an equivalent R-value of more than 40/cm (100/in). The paper concludes with an overview of the economics of Thermadapt™ building coverings and the intellectual property landscape.

Facade decoration Systems, including fastened insulation, ventilated facades systems, facades with decorative coating, including lacquer coating, translucent systems and architectural facades are considered.Рассмотрены системы фасадной отделки: скрепленной изоляции, системы вентилируемых фасадов, декоративными, в т.ч. лакокрасочными покрытиями; системы светопрозрачных и архитектурных фасадов.